2 Detroiters arrested in alleged attack over cell phone at Ferndale school

11:01 AM,
Apr. 21, 2014

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Ferndale police arrested two men and are looking for a third in connection with an alleged assault on a 16-year-old at the Taft Digital Learning Center.

According to police, the three went into a classroom Tuesday just before 2 p.m., demanded he turn over his cell phone and attacked the student leaving him unconscious. They took the cell phone, ran out of the building and the 16-year-old was rushed to Beaumont Hospital in an ambulance.

"It initially appeared that this attack was a robbery, but investigation shows that the assailants were retrieving a phone that was stolen from one of them about ...